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Posted on 08/21/2013 10:56:25 AM PDT by Nachum
After the news that the four State Department employees who had been superficially and symbolically ‘held accountable’ following last September’s terrorist attack in Benghazi are now back at work at the State Department, House Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa issued the appropriately scathing statement: “Obama administration officials repeatedly promised the families of victims and the American people that officials responsible for security failures would be held accountable. Instead of accountability, the State Department offered a charade that included false reports of firings and resignations and now ends in a game of musical chairs where no one misses a single day on the State Department payroll. It is now clear that the personnel actions taken by the Department in response to the Benghazi terrorist attacks was more of a public relations strategy than a measured response to a failure in leadership.”
Sadly, charades and musical chairs seems to be a pretty apt way of describing this particular bout of never-ending stonewalling. Following up on Fox News this morning, Issa enumerated some of the ways in which the State Department is still obfuscating on Congress’s requests coming up on a year after the attack, and that the Accountability Review Board report to which Democrats and the White House endlessly pointed as the authoritative source on what went down in Benghazi and who was responsible for it — but our new secretary of state evidently is ready to pretty much just throw it out the window.
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
So has your investigation of it Mr. Issa.
We have a winner. Lotsa talk, lotsa “investigation”, not one single thing done about it.
Not one.
I wonder if the excusemakers from the thread 2 days back will show up to tell me to do better again...
Never occured them to tell ISSA to do better...nooooo.....
Just me as I dared point out the obvious. Happens a lot around here lately. I wonder why.
Last time we looked the GOP controlled the house and could call any witness they wanted..cut off funding for State etc. If all we get his a few lame witness’s and stonewalling..it just means the GOP is useless.
Top of the hour radio news
Issa says State dept now wants to classify documents, ie up-classify previously provided docs when advised committee wants to release some docs to public.. Hmmmmmm
The Benghazi Affair is most troubling.. Some may question the inquisitioners and their approach, the findings regardless are no surprise.
This one will make contra arm’s soiree at covert ops look like a masterpiece.
This is awkwardly clear.
Yup. But that carved in stone fact aside, look around at how many Freepers, much less regular people, demand we keep voting for them. Look how many have screaming fits whenever a third party is discussed or even flat out admit they will vote GOP no matter what.
Any wonder Issa does what he does? He knows there is no downside.
“This one will make contra arm’s soiree at covert ops look like a masterpiece.”
It already does. The only reason we haven’t gotten to the administration is ‘cause the Senate is controlled by Obamatrons.
http://www.nachumlist.com/benghazi.htm
Reminds ya of Oil for Food, eh. Norm Coleman sure got to the bottom of things and then jammed us on energy too..
Nice to know Issa has a good nest egg.. And pension to boot.
And a bunch of sycophants willing to trash their own personal reps to defend him online.
And I thought the Kardashian groupies were idiots....
There is no excuse for Issa slow walking subpoenas and delivering some justice to all these loons. Then I heard Karl Rove defending such foot dragging as “great patience”.
This says it’s all typical Rove politics, to drag it out to the election. Disgraceful.
Anyone have a guess how much foreign money has lined their campaign coffers the last 20 years?
Must be a couple shiek’s fortunes at least..
The best damn CONgre$$ ya can buy anywhere. Cheap.
Or drag it out till a new investigation so the old can be forgotten.
If he actually investigated all the investigations he has going with no results, he would be a Time Lord...because there ain’t enough hours in the day for a mere mortal to put in that kind of work.
What, specifically, can Issa do? Tell him. I think he’s stymied by a lack of support from his own party.
Yup, done come to that conclusion myself.
Pretty much following the same path as the 'Fast and Furious' investigation, going nowhere by design.
IRS investigation, another joke on us.
The Kardashians,, claim to fame, dad tried to smuggle OJ across the border, the Money BooBoo passes gas,, ratings rise.. :-)
Roma is lucky.. There was no TV or much of a media back then.. But they still had corrupt leaders, an indifferent mass of folks, all the ingredients to implode,,
Ah here we go ;)
How about his job? How about actually using his powers to get info instead of waiting till whoever gets around to telling him to pound salt? How about filing for legal clarifications with federal courts on the Holder BS and every other stonewall?
How about not pretending to me a moron and letting Lerner slide until caught?
How about getting lerner back in a chair?
How about Hillary?
How about finding the whereabouts of all the 1 year missing people in Bhenghazi?
How about holding people accountable in the media/on the net if he has to and shame them into compliance?
How about you and the rest stop making excuses and start demanding he get off his RINO ass and actually investigate?
How about that?
HUh,, Boehner has his back.. Not. Lol.
Nonexistent to nil for any kind of support to date..
Sadly, special counsel should have been invoked the first day o assumed office, but who was big housedog back then?
Actually the only reason we haven’t gotten anywhere with this is the MSM’s reluctance to do its job.
Want to get a reaction? Threaten to shut down the New York Times and subpeona all of its writers.
All he has to do is a daily press conference/youtube video pointing out each and every unclassified detail he knows and hypothetically posing scenarios about the ones that are.
Feeding frenzy.
But he puts party over country and dead Americans.
Psst, Issa; maybe if you hold up a blank sign...
Target: NAILED.
In other words, "Don't blame me for not enforcing the law and sending people to jail for perjury and obstruction of justice. I'm only a sock-puppet and prop who's been told I can't by my Overlords."
Looks like the US Constitution is a charade as well.
It’s a ‘living document’. But all living things eventually die.
Ouch! While this thread contains many good points, on both sides of the subject, it also illustrates that Conservatives will never starve when this unconstitutional government crashes and burns.
Conservatives will survive by eating each other.
So true!
Issa is a fraud, talk about a target rich environment he has been wallowing in for a few years now and so far what can he show for his efforts?
not one f#cking thing. The DNC must have video proof of him torching cars.
I would ask if anything I said in my criticism is untrue. Since I know it’s not, then how do you define eating our own? Our own want people held to account. People not doing that should be figuratively eaten. They are helping shield the problem and in so doing, ARE the problem.
Following your lead, Rep. Issa? Is that the pot calling the kettle black? I have been disappointed in your chairmanship, as well.
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